EU’s New Health Threats Body Could Speed Arrival Of New Antibiotics

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Europe is preparing a “preparatory action” to review existing measures for tackling antimicrobial resistance, identify the gaps, and to determine what products will be needed in future.

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New antibiotics will be needed for future health threats • Source: Alamy

The planned Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA) offers the EU the chance to act as a “pipeline coordinator” in bringing promising new classes of antibiotics to the market and to help avoid critical product shortages in future health crises, according to a policy paper by Norwegian and French researchers.

But other interventions will also be needed to simulate innovation and secure access to new antibiotics, including “pull” mechanisms and...

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